Duchesse Cherry
Verhaeghe in Vichte, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.49
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“Duchesse Cherry“ is as its name suggests a cherry beer. Brewed only with real Belgian cherries (no flavor enhancers or cherry extracts). The fruit comes from the region of Sint-Truiden in Limburg (Belgium).
Unlike the more famous Kriek beers, the basic beer of the "Duchess Cherry" is not a Lambic. but a Flanders red ale of mixed fermentation. This beer has a top fermented base and is then matured in oak casks where it undergoes a second wild fermentation. The tannins in the foeders (very large barrel used for the storage of great Bordeaux wines) give the Duchess Cherry its sweet, fruity, refreshing and bittersweet taste.
Once the base beer is ready, the master brewer adds 20 Kg of "Kriek Gorsem" (Belgian sour cherries) per 100 liters to the beer. For 6 months, the beer macerates with the cherries. The cherries give a fresh and fruity taste to the beer which has a sweet and sour base. After 24 months of process, the beer is ready to be filtered and racked .
Unlike the more famous Kriek beers, the basic beer of the "Duchess Cherry" is not a Lambic. but a Flanders red ale of mixed fermentation. This beer has a top fermented base and is then matured in oak casks where it undergoes a second wild fermentation. The tannins in the foeders (very large barrel used for the storage of great Bordeaux wines) give the Duchess Cherry its sweet, fruity, refreshing and bittersweet taste.
Once the base beer is ready, the master brewer adds 20 Kg of "Kriek Gorsem" (Belgian sour cherries) per 100 liters to the beer. For 6 months, the beer macerates with the cherries. The cherries give a fresh and fruity taste to the beer which has a sweet and sour base. After 24 months of process, the beer is ready to be filtered and racked .
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. A- Cherry, faint oak. A- Dark red color, slightly hazy liquid, off white head. T- Cherry, funk, wet barnwood, subtle tartness. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- Lovely. Not too sour with a bit of a barnyard factor. Nice slightly jammy but still tart cherry flavor. Easy nice drinker.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2022
at 23:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle, online from Beer Sniffers. Pours clear ruby red with an off white cap. Aroma: tart cherries, candy sugar. Taste: light tartness, sour cherries, cinnamon. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2022
at 21:07
8/10
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Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2022
at 21:47
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2022
at 18:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Frothy white good mostly lasting head. Dark amber colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Week sour cherry notes. Moderate bitter flavor. Some actic nice cherry notes. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2022
at 09:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled at Max's Belgian Fest 2022, pours a clear, garnet amber with some white head. Nose has cherry, raspberry, apple cider vinegar. F;avor has big cherry and candy, raspberry. Tight finish. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2022
at 22:11
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Nick's. Pours clear ruby, nose is funk, cherry, earthy, taste is tart, cherry, funk.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2022
at 23:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Solsletta 311221. Red golden color with a wbeige head. Aroma is cherries, sourness, vinegar. Flavor is cherries, sourness, vinegar, fruit, berries, oak, dried fruit.
Tried
on 25 Jan 2022
at 05:36
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Tart lactic acid, oak, sour cherry nose. Nose is more funky than the regular or the chocolate cherry, and almost lambic-like, with leather and horse blanket. Bright, deep, scarlet with a pink head. Rich cherry flavor, lots of oak, funk, some vinegar, vanilla. This is amazingly oaky compared to the regular, or is that something else? Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2022
at 10:29